I don't remember MGS3's story being bat**** crazy.
For that you need MGS4
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And evidently PW also.
Let's put it a different way... the story being mad didn't hurt in MGS2, or 1 or 3.
But 4 was so far gone story-wise, that you wished in the end for less story and just to play the game. I could have lived with the insane amount of cutscenes if I'd felt the story was of an acceptible quality.
That's actually another thing now that I think of it. A bat**** insane story can still be fun if it's well done. I'm afraid that 4's story wasn't even well done. It was like a child had written it. It was like a massive work of fan-fiction written by a 12 year old.
I'm really hoping MGS5 is better in this regard.